Fetch information from Hal + JSON object in Angular 2

I have a spring-data-rest repository creating a hal + json object that I would like my Angular 2 frontend to accept and display.

Hal + Json object:

{
  "_embedded" : {
    "users" : [ {
      "name" : "Bob",
      "_links" : {
        "self" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users/1"
        },
        "user" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users/1"
        }
      }
    }, {
      "name" : "Joe",
      "_links" : {
        "self" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users/2"
        },
        "user" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users/2"
        }
      }
    } ]
  },
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users"
    },
    "profile" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/profile/users"
    },
    "search" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:4200/api/users/search"
    }
  },
  "page" : {
    "size" : 20,
    "totalElements" : 2,
    "totalPages" : 1,
    "number" : 0
  }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I have a service that makes a get request to this api.

user.service.ts:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';
import { User } from './user.model';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map'

@Injectable()
export class UserService {

  constructor(private http: Http) {
  }

  findAllUsers(): Observable<Array<User>> {
    return this.http.get('/api/users')
      .map((response: Response) => response.json())
      .map((data: Array<User>) => {
        return data;
      });
  }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Then my user.component calls the findAllUsers method from the service.

users.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { User } from './user.model';
import { UserService } from './user.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-users',
  providers: [UserService],
  templateUrl: './users.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./users.component.css']
})
export class UsersComponent implements OnInit {
  users: User[];

  constructor(private userService: UserService) {
  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
   this.userService.findAllUsers().subscribe((data: Array<User>) => {
     this.users = data;
   });
  }

}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Finally, users.component.html:

<h4>Users:</h4>

<div *ngFor="let user of users">
  {{user}}
</div>

      

        
        
        
      

    

In my opinion, I am getting the error: Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays.

I am not sure how to solve this.

If I try to use the debugger before the service returns data

, then I can see my hal + json = object data

, and I can see the correct information I want from data._embedded_users

. But this cannot be mapped to User [] because it is _embedded

not a property of my user model. Do I need to do something with the Hal + Json object first?